Win 10 clean install to new ssd

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Imnoexpert wrote: »

Thanks for all your help. I fear you think I know more than I do.

I'm struggling on this. I had downloaded the manual before I did it but can't find the reference to

"Please refresh this Bios twice "

refer to manual, then need CLRTC.

I did the flash of the BIOS twice is this the same as refreshing it? If not then what does it mean?What doees CLRTC mean?

CTLRC = Clear the CMOS:

Refer to manual for jumpers or procedure.

Aslo I would suggest loading the optimised BIOS defaults.

Double_V

So we can use our Windows 7 key to Windows 10 cleaned install drive ?

Imnoexpert_2

Thanks again. I've done this ages ago on another machine. It's quite tricky on this one I see.

I'll have a look at loading the optimised defaults.

Probably tomorrow now

Thanks again.

esuhl

Double_V wrote: »

So we can use our Windows 7 key to Windows 10 cleaned install drive ?

Yup. Just clean install Win10, and enter your Win7 (or Win8) product key when prompted for one.

Behind the scenes, Microsoft will update their record of your Win7 key with an additional free OEM licence for Windows 10. Your OEM/retail Win7 licence is unchanged, so if you ever want to go back to Windows 7 you can do so. (Obviously this is all based on the original licence you had. An OEM licence will still be locked to the original machine; a retail licence can be moved to a different machine. However, even if you have a retail Win7 licence, you still only get an OEM version of Win10 that can't be moved to a new PC.)

Hope that helps :-)

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esuhl wrote: »

Yup. Just clean install Win10, and enter your Win7 (or Win8) product key when prompted for one.

Behind the scenes, Microsoft will update their record of your Win7 key with an additional free OEM licence for Windows 10. Your OEM/retail Win7 licence is unchanged, so if you ever want to go back to Windows 7 you can do so. (Obviously this is all based on the original licence you had. An OEM licence will still be locked to the original machine; a retail licence can be moved to a different machine. However, even if you have a retail Win7 licence, you still only get an OEM version of Win10 that can't be moved to a new PC.)

Hope that helps :-)

That's not correct. Retail will upgrade to Retail - I've just verified this on my own machine.

Imnoexpert_2

I promised to report back - so here goes.

I posted two threads - one about a BIOS upgrade and separately (this one) about the Windows 10 upgrade.

The Windows 10 plan has worked perfectly. I downloaded the W10 ISO and burnt it to disk (I used my Linux machine to do this just to be safe). Even though it said somewhere this would only be valid for 24 hours I successfully used it beyond the 24 hours. I then disconnected my old HD and connected up the new SSD. I re-started the PC and W10 downloaded to the new ssd.

Windows 10 worked perfectly (I knew I would need my W7 ID because it was a clean install on a new sssd). I had an issue that while W10 could see all my peripherals and hard drives on USB it didn't see my Old (SATA) drive which I have reconnected. I ran the 'fix problems' wizard and now it can see it.

If I choose on the boot menu I can run W7 from my old Hard Drive. So the legacy software which probably won't run in W10 (family history, home accounts) is accessible to me.

It's early days but it was a success and relatively trouble free. I now need to load up all the programs I need....

I'll add the information on the BIOS upgrade on that separate thread.

esuhl

anewhope wrote: »

That's not correct. Retail will upgrade to Retail - I've just verified this on my own machine.

Really?! With all the confusion that Microsoft caused with their strangely unclear announcements, I thought I'd figured out how the upgrade works by now!

Assuming you're right, that's good news. If Win10 continues with its rolling-release model and isn't superseded by another OS, I'll have a free Windows licence for life.

I guess it shows how much money Microsoft are making by selling people's usage data to advertisers if they aren't bothered about losing licence revenue.

wongataa

anewhope wrote: »

That's not correct. Retail will upgrade to Retail - I've just verified this on my own machine.

No it won't. How did you verify it?